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Agitator
05-13-2008, 04:36 PM
to these things as a kid?

http://www.classictoysnyc.com/imagesthumb/GAM.jpg


Fire crackers, magnifying glasses, bottle rockets, little rocks, big rocks, setting em up on the railroad tracks, lighters, and God knows what I have forgotten.

These things were freaking worth every penny. Hours of endless destructive entertainment.
clambake
05-13-2008, 04:38 PM
go to iraq. ain't nothin like the real thing baby.
Jimcs50
05-13-2008, 04:41 PM
Made bunkers in my back yard, threw firecrackers at the bunkers and tried to blow the bastards out of their holes. Good times.

:)
Agitator
05-13-2008, 04:44 PM
go to iraq. ain't nothin like the real thing baby.

So you never had any army men? I guess you were too busy sewing tutu's for your Barbies...
jman3000
05-13-2008, 04:45 PM
one christmas i got about 3 or 4 buckets full of the green and tan ones. i must have had a couple thousand of those damn things.

i never destroyed them... i would just have huge battles.
Agitator
05-13-2008, 04:45 PM
Made bunkers in my back yard, threw firecrackers at the bunkers and tried to blow the bastards out of their holes. Good times.

:)

That is what the cheap ass roman candles were for. oooh did I get a butt whoopin for that one. "you're gonna shoot your eye out." :lmao
Agitator
05-13-2008, 04:51 PM
one christmas i got about 3 or 4 buckets full of the green and tan ones. i must have had a couple thousand of those damn things.

i never destroyed them... i would just have huge battles.

Me too.

I had full out transportation platoons with the duece and a halfs:
http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/ampctrk1.gif

and about 5 or 6 of the old tanks:

http://www.prestoimages.net/graphics03/12505_pd220730full.JPG

Jeeps, hueys, and the antitank guns that doubled as artillery.

I could probably go back to my parents old house, dig up the yard and find 1/2 of 'em still there.





Artillery units:




tank platoons with the
Jimcs50
05-13-2008, 04:52 PM
That is what the cheap ass roman candles were for. oooh did I get a butt whoopin for that one. "you're gonna shoot your eye out." :lmao


It is a wonder we survived out childhood.

Had my son even tried some the crap I used to pull, I would have tanned his hide.

:)
BacktoBasics
05-13-2008, 04:56 PM
I don't know how many times I woke up with a bazooka army man indention on my nutsack.
DarkReign
05-15-2008, 10:52 AM
I don't know how many times I woke up with a bazooka army man indention on my nutsack.

:lmao

I always had GI Joes. Never bothered with the little green men.